Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner is scheduled to begin a 21-month prison sentence on Monday after a judge sentenced him in September for sending sexually explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl.

Philadelphia’s former Democratic district attorney, Seth Williams, whose tenure as the city’s first black top prosecutor was mired in corruption, was sentenced Tuesday to 60 months in prison for accepting a bribe.

An al Qaeda operative who was convicted of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane with a bomb sewed into his underwear has filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others, alleging his constitutional rights are being violated at a supermax federal prison in Colorado.

In Washington, D.C., most of the people connected to the criminal justice system are black. The prisoners, yes—91 percent in 2014—but also the police officers, guards, and judges. How could a system with an overwhelming number of black administrators produce overwhelming incarceration of black citizens?

Inmates at St. Louis Medium Security Institution, better known as City Workhouse, are complaining that the facility is too cold with the arrival of new temporary air conditioning units, which were installed due to earlier protests that conditions were too hot.